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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Lost opportunity',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2019/02/12.jpg" alt="A bird nest in a leafless tree" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="dreams">
	<h2>Dream journal</h2>
	<p>
		I dreamed my body got stretched and misshapen, then melded together with the bodies of four other people to form one large person.
		It was really strange.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="blisters">
	<h2>Blisters</h2>
	<p>
		All this walking instead of biking is starting to give me blisters.
		At least I&apos;ll be able to bike again starting on Thursday.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="religion">
	<h2>Religion</h2>
	<p>
		The highlight of today&apos;s reading was that an angel removed someone&apos;s sins by touching a live coal to their lips.
		It wasn&apos;t directly said that they weren&apos;t burnt by it, but they kept talking as if nothing had happened, so I&apos;m assuming that heavenly magic kept them from getting burnt by it.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="earring">
	<h2>Earring</h2>
	<p>
		I found my green earring crushed near the front door.
		It must&apos;ve fallen off before I went out yesterday, not <strong>*while*</strong> I was out.
		I managed to repair it well enough for it to still be usable.
	</p>
	<p>
		I also tried my hand at making an earring.
		I used ten centimetres of wire, and the thing came out way too large.
		Later in the day, I reworked it, so it looks like three loops around the edge of my ear, instead of two.
		It didn&apos;t quite come out as nice as I&apos;d&apos;ve liked it too, as it still shows signs of the initial bends I put in it.
		I think it looks fine from a distance, but it&apos;s not something that would look nice to take off and show someone.
		I think for the two-band look, six centimetres of wire would suffice, or if I went with the criss-cross look I&apos;d tried for, seven centimetres.
		I think I like this three-band look better though.
		Perhaps nine centimetres would be a better length for that next time though.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Yeah, keeping things up to date can be a pain.
			I used to have a system (Ubuntu) that checked for updates every week automatically and notified me if there were updates.
			I&apos;d go over the list of updates to see if any looked fishy, then tell the system to install them all.
			These days, I&apos;m on Debian, which doesn&apos;t have that.
			Admittedly, there are a lot less updates on a Debian system, but there are still security-related updates, which must be manually checked for.
			I trust Debian much more, so I don&apos;t have to go through the process of checking to see if the updates are fishy.
			It&apos;s really easy to check for and install updates, too.
			The difficult part is remembering to check, because the system isn&apos;t going to do it for you.
			I sometimes go months at a time without updating.
		</p>
		<p>
			I just ran a check now because I was thinking about it, and I had 357 packages in need of update.
			Shame, shame.
			Debian doesn&apos;t release updates mid-version to add new features, so those are all bug patches and security updates that I hadn&apos;t taken the time check for and install before today.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Wow, I had no idea it used to take that long to process census data in the old days.
			It would explain why even to this day, the census only happens once every decade.
			It&apos;s a legacy scheduling, that there was never any incentive to change.
		</p>
		<p>
			Structure can help keep data organised, but like you said, that structure isn&apos;t always available.
			You make a good point that Hadoop can let you start with one server, then let up up your server count as necessary.
			Hadoop functions by running a name node and one or more data nodes, but the name node and one of the data nodes can (and often do) in fact run on the same physical machine.
			That allows you to run Hadoop on a single server if you like instead of needing at least two servers.
			With only a single server though, you don&apos;t get the fault tolerance that helps make Hadoop so useful.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="mother">
	<h2>Mother</h2>
	<p>
		My mother stopped by to use my shower.
		I noticed she went up and took a look at my calendar, too.
		My guess is that she was trying to figure out my schedule, as this is the second time she dropped by this week expecting me to be out.
		She had to have seen the scribble through this week and followed it back to Thursday, which is labelled as &quot;surgery - take week off from work&quot;.
		And last time she dropped by, I was out when she got here, but I&apos;d made sure to put my bloody gauss somewhere conspicuous to bait her attention.
		I arrived before she left, and she asked me about it.
		I played it off with a joke, and she asked no further questions, but now she has to have put the pieces together.
		It was from some mystery surgery.
	</p>
	<p>
		She didn&apos;t ask me about the surgery, which is too bad.
		The gauss was so minor that I couldn&apos;t use it alone as the proper segue I need, but if she brought up surgery, I could lay it on her.
		If she wants to know what&apos;s going on in my life, she&apos;s going to have to stop misgendering me.
		I guess I blew my chance by leaving the gauss out.
		I couldn&apos;t&apos;ve known that at the time though.
		I&apos;ve tried directly confronting her.
		At this point, I need to bait her into confronting me, so I can show her she&apos;s losing me already, so she&apos;ll understand she&apos;ll lose me altogether if she can&apos;t accept me.
	</p>
</section>
END
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